Yehezkiel 18:21

18:21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

Yehezkiel 18:31

18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! ¹  Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Yehezkiel 33:12

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ²  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ³  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ⁴  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ⁵  if he sins.’ ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 33:1

Ezekiel Israel’s Watchman

33:1 The word of the Lord came to me:

1 Samuel 7:3-4

7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. ⁷  Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you ⁸  from the hand of the Philistines.” 7:4 So the Israelites ⁹  removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the Lord.

Kolose 3:5-9

3:5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: ¹⁰  sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, ¹¹  evil desire, and greed which is idolatry. 3:6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. ¹²  3:7 You also lived your lives ¹³  in this way at one time, when you used to live among them. 3:8 But now, put off all such things ¹⁴  as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth. 3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

Titus 2:14

2:14 He ¹⁵  gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, ¹⁶  who are eager to do good. ¹⁷ 

Yakobus 2:10-12

2:10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails ¹⁸  in one point has become guilty of all of it. ¹⁹  2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ²⁰  also said, “Do not murder.” ²¹  Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law. 2:12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom. ²² 

[18:31]  ¹ sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.

[33:12]  ² tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:12]  ³ tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

[33:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

[33:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “by it.”

[33:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

[7:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.

[7:3]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10, where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13, where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.

[7:3]  ⁸ tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[7:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.”

[3:5]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the members which are on the earth.” See BDAG 628 s.v. μέλος 1, “put to death whatever in you is worldly.”

[3:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “lust.”

[3:6]  ¹² tc The words ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας (epi tou" Juiou" th" apeiqeia", “on the sons of disobedience”) are lacking in Ì⁴⁶ B b sa, but are found in א A C D F G H I Ψ 075 0278 33 1739 1881 Ï lat sy bo. The words are omitted by several English translations (NASB, NIV, ESV, TNIV). This textual problem is quite difficult to resolve. On the one hand, the parallel account in Eph 5:6 has these words, thus providing scribes a motive for adding them here. On the other hand, the reading without the words may be too hard: The ἐν οἷς (en |oi") of v. 7 seems to have no antecedent without υἱούς already in the text, although it could possibly be construed as neuter referring to the vice list in v. 5. Further, although the witness of B is especially important, there are other places in which B and Ì⁴⁶ share errant readings of omission. Nevertheless, the strength of the internal evidence against the longer reading is at least sufficient to cause doubt here. The decision to retain the words in the text is less than certain.

[3:6]  sn The expression sons of disobedience is a Semitic idiom that means “people characterized by disobedience.” In this context it refers to “all those who are disobedient.” Cf. Eph 5:6.

[3:7]  ¹³ tn Grk “you also walked.” The verb περιπατέω (peripatew) is commonly used in the NT to refer to behavior or conduct of one’s life (L&N 41.11).

[3:8]  ¹⁴ tn The Greek article with τὰ πάντα (ta panta) is anaphoric, referring to the previous list of vices, and has been translated here as “all such things.”

[2:14]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “who” (as a continuation of the previous clause).

[2:14]  ¹⁶ tn Or “a people who are his very own.”

[2:14]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “for good works.”

[2:10]  ¹⁸ tn Or “stumbles.”

[2:10]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “guilty of all.”

[2:11]  ²⁰ sn A quotation from Exod 20:14 and Deut 5:18.

[2:11]  ²¹ sn A quotation from Exod 20:13 and Deut 5:17.

[2:12]  ²² tn Grk “a law of freedom.”